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title: "Starting Your Own Blog: Tips for Non-profits"
date: 2007-03-04
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# Starting Your Own Blog: Tips for Non-profits
> Do you have any links you can send me regarding best practices, research, etc for starting/running a non-profit blog? A writer who works for me has a non-profit foundation and would like to start a blog. We could just start one, but I think we should define our goals and find out what differences (if any) exist between blog-types. Any direction you can provide is appreciated.

I divided my response into three sections. 

**Comparing Blog Types**

For a chart showing the differences between different blogging platforms, see this [comprehensive grid from Red Alt.](http://redalt.com/Blog+Software+Breakdown) Basically, the most common three platforms are Blogger, Movable Type, and WordPress. Blogger is basic and not as easy to customize. Movable Type is not bad, but since they switched to a paid model, they aren't nearly as appealing. WordPress is completely free, can be customized to the core, and has countless plugins and themes you can apply.

I highly recommend using WordPress. To get started with WordPress, visit [www.wordpress.org](http://redalt.com/Blog+Software+Breakdown) and see the instruction from the [WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page). I also made a [how-to installation video here](https://idratherbewriting.com/2007/02/07/getting-started-with-wordpress--video-tutorial-on-installation/). You can install it in a subdirectory (such as "blog") within your nonprofit site and link to it, or you can install it in the root and let it be the site.

**Best Practices for Nonprofits**

As for best tips and practices, here's what I've learned from running [http://stc-suncoast.org](http://stc-suncoast.org), the STC Suncoast nonprofit site:

- Blogs are great tools for disseminating information.

- Blogs are easy to set up, and you can share the publishing tasks with others.

- You can easily add additional functionality to your blog (for example, comments, chat, podcasts) that isn't so easy with a traditional website.